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Re: acetic acid /sea container
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Ari Seppälä <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 6 Dec 2008 20:18:37 +0200
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Personally I use acetic acid only to equipment from dead colonies. If they 
are with bee droppings I melt all frames, but clean food frames are used 
after acetic treatment. ( I have all my hives tested - no afb)

Using acetic acid to all frames during winter has been *normal good 
practice* in finnish beekeeping, but many have stopped doing it. Now I have 
frieds who use it mainly for EFB prvention. If they see it they treat all 
frames during winter for a few years. This is the use I recommend as a bee 
advicer. We don't normally use antibiotics for brood deseases.

Ari Seppälä 

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